ARE LIBERALS OVERREPRESNTED IN THE MEDIA?
If journalists are over represented on the left compared to the general public, and as people see things through their own ideological eyes, then are we the public truly getting balanced news and editorials on important issues?
According to Bernard Goldberg in his book Bias; in the 1992 Presidential Election, 89% of journalist voted for Clinton compared with 43% of the people that are not journalist that also voted for President Clinton. 7% of journalist voted for Bush while 37% of voters voted for Bush. 2% of news people voted for Perot while 19% of the electorate voted for him. 85% of the reporters who cover the White House vote Democrat. If this is true as Bernard Goldberg asserts then we should see a surge in ratings toward news outlets that are non-liberal. Fox News advertises it’s self as fair and balanced and Fox News had an average of 656,000 viewers watching at any time throughout the day in January. CNN averaged 596,000, according to Nielsen Media Research data provided by the networks. The story was largely the same in prime time -- all despite the fact that CNN is available in 9 million more homes than Fox News. The largest radio talk shows are conservative Rush, Dr Laura, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingrham, etc. The only other syndicated radio show that attracts as many listeners is Howard Stern.
Tammy Bruce in her book The New Thought Police actually accuses the media of trying to influence public opinion. She says “ If honesty is your standard, then suddenly the truly sneaky, untrustworthy rags are “Time” and “Newsweek” publications that purport to be objective and non-partisan while they take you for a ride”. Untrustworthy Rags is according to Tammy is what the left calls publications such as “American Spectator” and “National Review”. These publications you know going in their right wing bias because they advertise it. She goes on to say they(the media) pretend to be unbiased to better manipulate the public.


0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home